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We spoke to a group of female servicewomen currently stationed in Fort Campbell, K.Y. as they prepare for deployment to Afghanistan this spring. Here, five of them talk to us about past deployments, navigating expectations, and their changing roles in the Army read more

Women get flustered under fire. They're too fragile, too emotional. They lack the ferocity required to take a life. They can't handle pain. They're a distraction, a threat to cohesion, a provocative tease to close-quartered men. These are the sort of myths you hear from people who oppose the U.S. military's evolving new rules about women in combat, who have earned medals fighting alongside men, the war stories they tell don't sound a thing like myths read more

When Jessica Paré's Megan Draper confessed a startling secret on Sunday's Mad Men, she had to clarify that she was talking about events "in real life"—not on her soap opera, To Have and To... read more